| Re: ...this mortal coil |
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| Parry (parry@perfactOMITmail.com) |
2004/03/05 13:29 |
elag wrote:
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> Parry wrote:
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> > elag wrote:
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> > > Parry wrote:
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> > > > elag wrote:
> > > > > > Friday January 09, 2004
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> > > > > > By Brian Thevenot Staff writer
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> > > > > > On Monday, the parents of Finley Christopher Farley, 45, firmed up
> > > > > > arrangements for his funeral...
> > > > > > http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-1/107363338119460.xml
> > > > >
> > > > > The story reminded me of Rene Clair's film "It Happened Tomorrow"...
> > > > > which might make sense if you've seen it... maybe it's time for a
> > > > > sequel: "It'll Happen Yesterday".
> > > >
> > > > Haven't seen that one. The story reminded me, momentarily at least, of
> > > > Antonioni's "The Passenger."
> > >
> > > And I haven't seen that one, but I'll see your Antonioni and raise you
> > > one Bunuel a Greenaway and 2 Fatty Arbuckle shorts to be named later.
> >
> > I want absolutely nothing to do with Fatty Arbuckle's shorts so I fold.
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> Understandable, though it's well known that Surrealist shorts are the
> most pungent. It's another well known fact that Arbuckle always kept a
> few reels of Griffith's "Birth of a Nation" in his pants. Yet another
> well known fact is that Buster Keaton was often seen in Arbuckle's shorts.
Lesser known still is that Arbuckle wasn't fat, he was pregnant. And
once he gave birth to that nation he was as svelte as a taper in a kiln.
Keaton was comical in Arbuckle's shorts, but striking in Edith Head's
fancy dress. He looked like a tapir in a kilt.
-- Parry
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